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Oct 2014 where the daisies grow

absence

Oct 2014 where the daisies grow

david badgerow

absence

this is a craigslist missed connection ad
because you were
beautiful and drunk
and i was
drunk
when you approached me
at the beer tent
said 'hi'
and something about my '...bare feet'
but all i heard was 'kiss me ******* the mouth'
we had so much chemistry,
neutrons and protons colliding
when our fingers touched as you
passed me your cigarette, exhaling
i watched as your hair began to stick
to a crest of sweat on your neck while
we chatted for forty seven minutes and
thirteen seconds, near as i can figure
never mentioning each other's names
or phone numbers but
if i ever see you smile again
i'll slip you my name like a prayer
pressed to your lips or a ring on your finger
even though you said you hate jewelry
your ears, so cute and small and not even pierced
solitary necklace adorning the angelic collarbone
now burrowed into your left breast
it's a cheap faux crystal trinket with a purple tint
that you got for $15 two years ago
but you love my earrings
saying you always had a thing for guys with tattoos
you're an environmental sciences major
and a wonderful butterfly
with eyes like an ocean
hair that just won't quit
and the most delicate navel
i've ever seen
you're perfect and
i might've dreamt
of your legs
for the last two nights
those devilish muscles that first
brought you close to me
then, quick as light,
stole you
away.

Oct 2014 where the daisies grow

limbs

Oct 2014 where the daisies grow

Anna Elizabeth Bailey

limbs

I wish I didn't miss you. I feel like I'm missing limbs without you here

Oct 2014 where the daisies grow

I miss you

Oct 2014 where the daisies grow

Taylor

I miss you

I always hear it and think "our song" and I think of your face and I just think of you. I think of the time we put it on our friends radio in her basement during her party, before everyone had arrived. I think of us sprawled out on the floor, of you holding my hand and my head on your stomach. I think of how I threw the necklace my newest ex had given me somewhere on the floor and kissed you, because I'd wanted you the whole time and now you were mine. I think of your arm around me and how it felt to kiss you and keep you. I thought of us going under her table and being crouched there together with you, laughing at how people thought we were ******* when we were just holding hands under a table. How you ran your hands down my sides while we were dancing in the darkness of her basement like a couple of idiots because it was pitch black and it felt like privacy, felt like us alone. I think of how it's our song. Except, it isn't our song anymore.

It was I miss you, by Blink-182.

Oct 2014 where the daisies grow

you

Oct 2014 where the daisies grow

Pluto

you

I fell in love
with the way
your eyes light
up when you
speak, the way
your shirt falls
across your
chest.
I grew
accustomed
to your
fingers
brushing
occasionally
against mine,
the way your
feet moved as
we walked
side-by-side
---

*I fell in love with

destructive

#love

Oct 2014 where the daisies grow

Write.

Oct 2014 where the daisies grow

Moll

Write.

When I write
I feel my mind
Slowly melt into the paper
Like ink from the soul

#love #poem #depression #hate #sadness #thoughts #mind #ink #soul

Oct 2014 where the daisies grow

Bright

Oct 2014 where the daisies grow

Tupelo

Bright

The bright lights will be
forever romantic in my eyes,
alley ways and corner stores
be the base of the neighborhood,
Momma says you gotta be out
of the house before the sun come up,
But you still got your liquor,
and your smoke,
all your cheap women and poetry,
You got that scratched record,
That throat that will sing them songs loud.
You just don't have yourself no more
That part of you is gone,
or was never even there.

#love #poetry #sad #life #thoughts #family

Oct 2014 where the daisies grow

Confusion

Oct 2014 where the daisies grow

Ruthie

Confusion

I never wanted to confuse you.
I never wanted you to be left wondering.
But you were.
You layed in bed for endless nights,
Trying to wrap your pretty thoughts around what had happened.
But you didn't know,
Did you?
You told me it was stupid to fall in love at seventeen.
You told me it was stupid to kiss you.
But then you tell me you hope you made a positive impact on my life.
Ha!
Positive?
Not at all....
Writing. That's all I seem to be able to do.
And I am so **** sick of writing about you.
You told me to go out into the world and be adventurous.
But I only want to be adventurous with you.
And I'm not sorry.
You confused me when you wrapped your heart around mine.

#love #heartbreak #poetry #sad #desire #lust #confusion

Oct 2014 where the daisies grow

is that too much to ask for

Oct 2014 where the daisies grow

Marie-Niege

is that too much to ask for

i demand
a certain
amount of
warmth
from every
body I lay
next to.

Oct 2014 where the daisies grow

is life making sense now, Nina?

Oct 2014 where the daisies grow

Marie-Niege

is life making sense now, Nina?

and now nina smokes vapes
on the quad with a new group
of friends that say things like,
do you have a dealer to every
dreaded black guy that passes by
and she talks really loud about
how fingers feel far far on the
inside and she laughs really
quiet at jokes that make sense,
and she never writes anymore
about how life makes no sense.

Oct 2014 where the daisies grow

hope

Oct 2014 where the daisies grow

Marie-Niege

hope

Recite to me every song lyric that reminds you of me and every line that hums a smile across your lips and presses the feel of my hands against your chest.

his smile is on my lips